Oops, sorry, didn’t mean to run into you with my Mercedes. It wasn’t on purpose and I swear I want the best for you! I was just a little tipsy...I am so sorry! I promise not to drink quite so much the next time I get on the road.
If you are making Billions off of people your mistakes are judged much more sharply and people expect you make up for the mistakes somehow. You don't have to agree with this but there is nothing that makes Facebook special and I know this as someone who grew up watching the internet from the get go. Sites like myspace, yahoo messenger, nexopia, and several others I can think off all died off. They seemed like world changers at the time and they all died off. It can happen to anyone and when you are making billions off of people you get to make very few mistakes.
> saying they did shady things in the past...neither legislators nor people seemed to think so
Your entire comment is ridiculous but I'll address this point... How many tech leaders have been summoned in front of world governments to justify their behaviour?
It isn't about left wing versus right wing. It is about weaponizing PII plus relationship data for profit and the inevitable consequences that come from such a revenue model.
This is exactly why I deleted my Facebook account in 2010. The writing was on the wall back then so I don't feel sorry for people who fear their privacy is violated now and certainly don't feel sorry for Facebook.
